FFI Support for C Block Objects

Apple recently ​proposed the inclusion of lambda abstractions (closures) into C/C++/Objective-C and facilitated an implementation in the clang compiler framework. They called this language extension blocks (or block objects). It is widely used in the APIs of OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard) and 10.7 (Lion). This page is about extending the Haskell 2010 FFI to directly support blocks — i.e., to enable Haskell functions to be marshalled as blocks to C and to enable C blocks to be marshalled as Haskell functions to Haskell land. This extension will be enabled by the language option BlockObjects.